19 Mar
2017
19 Mar
'17
3:34 p.m.
On 03/19/2017 02:14 PM, Toby Thain via cctalk wrote:
"The Fortran codes implementing the most
effective methods are
provided in the included diskette. The codes are portable on virtually
any computer, extensively commented and---hopefully---easy to use."
Take a look at early ACM CALGO (collected algorithms). Algorithm 1
dates from 1960 and is in Algol; indeed all of Volume I and a good part
of Volume II are exclusively Algol. You don't hit FORTRAN until about
1968 (somewhere around Algorithm 330). After that, you'll see pages and
pages of FORTRAN.
I do think that Algol is far more elegant for describing algorithms than
FORTRAN; but the sad fact is that many (US-based) programmers didn't
speak Algol.
--Chuck